Bush Fire at Brewarrina
SYDNEY. Sunday: In the northwestern district of NSW streams of volunteers have been fighting through out the day to check the big bush fire,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
398 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 20
Lightning Sets Fire to Stook of Hay (From Our Correspondent)
MILLTHORPE. Sunday. —Lightning set fire to a stook of hay in the middle of a 40-acre paddock at…
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A big bush fire near Brewarrina yesterday made conditions almost unbearable in the area, with temperatures up to 115 degrees. Other western and…
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SYDNEY, Monday: The Chief Secretary (Mr. Matthews) today took further action under the Bush Fires Act to prohibit the lighting of all…
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SYDNEY, Monday: In north-western NSW two big bushfire are raging out of control [?]anned by a stiff wind which caused them [?]o [?]…
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BREWARRINA, Monday: After raging out of control on a 20 mile front 25 miles northwest of Brewarrina a bushfire was brought under control…
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A four and a quarter litre [?] Royce engine powers this new style fire engine going into service in [?] Essex (Eng.) town of Ilford. At 3500 revolutions per minute the [?] develops 160 horse power. The vehicle carries a 50ft fire escape, [?] manned by a crew of six and…
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Although the heat in Western and North-Western N.S.W. eased considerably yesterday,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — A heat wave that gripped Western New South Wales for more than a week with temperatures well over 100 degrees has now eased. First relief from the intense…
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BRISBANE. Tuesday: The small town of Wyandra, in Southwestern Queensland, was today given over to women and children, except, for a few…
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LITHGOW—Lithgow Fire Brigade has the services of only one fire engine, which is thought by many people to be nadequate,…
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MADIUM (Java).—Two Indonesians fire brigades were “invited” three days ahead of the event to attend a fire recently…
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MILLTHORPE, Tuesday.—At the annual meeting of the Millthorpe Bush Fire Brigade It was disclosed that the brigade wound…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--Bushfires in the Brewarrina district are still smouldering and squads of firefighters are patrolling a huge area…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: Bushfires in southwestern Queensland, which in places have been burning for four days, are now either out of under…
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Lithgow Fire Brigade answered 50 calls during 1949, including two of the most sensational fires in the district for years--at the…
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MELBOURNE, This Afternoon.--The bushfire spotting service of the R.A.A.F. was to-day altered for the first time this summer…
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Emphasising the acute fire risk which, exists throughout the municipality at present, a grass fire broke out in the very centre of the city…
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Mr. Cecil Hayes was unfortunate recently when a newly purchased truck owned by him caught fire whilst standing in the line of…
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Between 10 and 15 acres of an oat crop, two hay stacks and a horse waggon were destroyed by fire at Eurimbla on Tuesday last…
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